Novels told in an interesting way

Agree re The Remains of the Day - he has a very unusual way of writing.

Also The Time Travellers Wife, if you haven't already read it.

The Bees by Laline Paull. Written from the POV of bees..🐝

Memories of the Future by Siri Hustdevt is written partly as a memoir and partly as a piece of fiction. The memoir parts are about her move to New York to try and find a main character and try and write a novel about that character. The fiction parts are that novel. The memoir and novel are interspersed with each other. I've only just started but I love her other work and its looking good so far.

She also wrote The Blindfold which is structured around four 'episodes' in a young woman's life where she's basically treated like shit by men. They're kind of interconnected by also not. They're more interconnected than four short stories but not as interconnected to make one novel IYSWIM.

I also enjoyed that way To Paradise was written by Hanya Yanagihara. It was three separate sagas, each long and deep enough to be a whole novel, spaced 100 years apart year (1883, 1993, 2093) with some thematic connections across them all.

@Suchapain , I love the Griffin and Sabine books. I've never met anyone else who knew of them before I told them. So beautiful.

Another one for Ghostwritten by David Mitchell. And I’m currently reading the Fingersmith by Sarah Waters which is very cleverly written from a number of perspectives.

It’s written in a very traditional way but the way the central character in “Remains of the Day” looks back at his past, slowly getting more insight into it seemed quite groundbreaking to me - albeit maybe it might not be the kind of thing you’re after.

84 Charing Cross rd is lovely, all written in letters.
Room, written from the point of view and voice of a young child.
A man called Ove, not that unusual but jumps between the present and past. The past makes the present make sense.

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman

It's stream of consciousness but in modern USA. Takes some effort but well worth it. I think about it often and loved it.

The French writer Georges Perec famously wrote an entire novel without a single letter ‘e’ in it, La Disparition. As that title doesn’t work in
English (‘The Disappearance’) it was translated by Gilbert Adair as ‘A Void’. Fantastically clever and tricksy from both of them.

Anything by Ishiguro really. All of his narrators are unreliable for different, often heartbreaking, reasons.

The Collector Collector by Tibor Fischer which is narrated by a vase.

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran For is narrated by an intermediate speaker of English as a second language.

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. Narrated by a fig tree which was brought over from Cyprus to London.

I haven’t read it myself but have heard House of Leaves is a great book for challenging the traditional format if you’re looking for something very different.

The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey

The Appeal - written through a series of emails and communications
Daisy and The Six

What Maisie Knew is great.

I'm always gobsmacked by Mark Lawrence's novels. He creates slightly skewed worlds and tells their stories almost entirely through the characters. Considering the lead characters are usually young women / teenage girls, this is really quite something.

He has some free samples if you want to check him out.

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

I loved this. Linked short stories.

Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister about a mother trying to prevent a murder her son has committed. As the story unfolds she wakes up each morning to inexplicably find herself further and further back in the past. By following the tale backwards, the reader gradually gets to piece together why the events took place. Your perspective and sympathies keeps shifting the more you learn. Twisty and satisfying.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I read this decades ago, and I couldnt remember the title or the author.

The Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock are wonderful but very difficult to find in the UK now, i think. You read their postcards and physically get letters out of envelopes to read them. More a visual experience than a literary one.

I found Cloud Atlas a bit of a slog, won’t say any more because I don’t want to add spoilers.

Salmon Fishing in The Yemen is told in a mix of letters, emails, reports etc (and the book is 100 times better than the movie).

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters has two narrators and is cleverly written.

Yes but your comment was much more informative and interesting!

And I see that while I was composing, House of Leaves got a mention by @MangoAF

Synchronised.

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

Look at reviews as it is hard to know where to start explaining it. (over)Ambitious end of Millennium, in terms of thinking, and use of technology.

His sister Anne Danielewski (AKA 'Poe') released a music album at the same time and the two works intertwine to an extent.

Justine by Lawrence Durrell.

While House of leaves is of the Millennium, this is of the mid-20th Century. The first of the Alexandria Quartet, with the subject being a married Jewish woman in an Alexandria, as loved and lost by an school-teacher writer who is un-named in this first book. It's atmospheric, probably requires the reader to impose a structure and treats women in ways that leave an after-distaste.

Both left me thinking 'well that was something, but I'm not too sure what'.

October list by Jeffrey deaver

Each chapter starts before the last chapter to tell the story sort of in reverse time.

The House of Leaves
World War Z

You’ve got lots of suggestions already but I haven’t seen Where d’you go Bernadette or Daddy long Legs recommended yet - both epistolary novels that I’ve enjoyed.

Also, A S Byatt’s Possession is unusually told - dual narrative in two time periods, stories within stories, Victorian love letters, poetry, and a literary love story mystery to solve alongside the protagonists. One of my favourite books.

Sarah Waters’ the Night Watch - told in four sections which go back in time progressively. Being SW she’s also impeccably captured the historical details and there’s a strong LGBT element.